POWER9 Servers Overview Scalable servers to meet the business needs of tomorrow.
> IBM Power Power Systems are built for the most demanding, data-intensive, computing on earth. Our cloud-ready servers help you unleash insight from your Systems data pipeline — from managing mission-critical data, to managing your operational data stores and data lakes, to delivering the best server for cognitive computing.
With industry leading reliability and security, our infrastructure is designed to crush the most data-intensive workloads imaginable, while keeping your business protected.
Enterprise No. 1 in reliability Industry-leading cloud-ready by ITIC value and performance Power Systems Ranked No. 1 in easily integrate into every major reliability With Power Systems, your organization’s category by ITIC*, IBM clients can take private or hybrid cloud Power Systems deliver advantage of superior strategy to handle the most reliable on- core performance and flexible consumption premises infrastructure memory bandwidth models and changing to meet around- to deliver both customer needs. the-clock customer performance and demands. price-performance advantages.
* #1 in every major reliability category, 2017-2018 ITIC Global Server Hardware Reliability Report (PDF, 908KB)
Table of Contents < Page 3 > IBM IBM POWER9: Enhanced core and chip architecture for next- POWER9 gen workloads Built from the ground-up for data intensive workloads, POWER9 is the only processor with state-of-the-art I/O subsystem technology, including next generation NVIDIA NVLink, PCIe Gen4 and OpenCAPI.
POWER9 vs 1 2 3 x86 Xeon SP 2x 2.6x 1.8x Performance per core RAM per socket Memory bandwidth per socket
POWER9 with 4 NVLink vs 9.5x CPU to accelerator x86 Xeon bandwidth
Table of Contents < Page 4 > POWER9 for Future-forward infrastructure to meet the needs of Enterprise the enterprise Take advantage of a scale-up infrastructure that lets you stay ahead of workload challenges, new data sources and compute demands. With these enterprise servers you can cloud enable workloads and build a cloud designed for the most data-intensive workloads.
Feature E950 E980 1-4 nodes
MTM 9040-MR9 9080-M9S
System Packaging 4U 5U system node & 2U system controller unit
Processor Socket 2S to 4S 4S per node
# of cores 32, 40, 44, or 48 cores Up to 192 cores
Memory DIMM Slots 128 DDR4 ISDIMMs Up to 128 DDR4 CDIMMs
Memory – Max 16TB 16TB per node, up to 64TB
Built-In IBM PowerVM Yes Yes
PCIe Gen4 Slots 10 Slots Up to 32 Slots
Operating System AIX, Linux AIX, IBM i, Linux
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Feature S914 S9 S9
MTM 9009-41 9009-22 9009-42
System Packaging 4U & Tower U U
Processor Socket 1S 1S pgradable or 2S 1S pgradable or 2S
Processor ptions
Memory DIMM Slots 16 32 32
Memory – Max 1TB 4TB 4TB
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